COM.POST #3: Hilary Jeffery (GB)

During the residency Hilary will compose a new piece of music featuring drone soundscapes describing a journey into other dimensions with graphic scores made in the form of maps for the musicians to navigate with. The journey will start at De Player departure lounge - located in the centre of the Katendrecht Spacepoort, an imagined(?) version of Katendrecht, set in the near future...

Central to the composition will be a new version of the Tromboscillator, a fusion of electronics and trombone which Hilary has played since 2000. This instrument offers up a vast audible landscape, a hall of acoustic mirrors, a labyrinth of ever changing pathways. As in our experiences in cyberspace and dream worlds, this sound world offers limitless possibilities for experimenting with the self, our ideas, our projections, our underwater and outer space wishes!

As we witness attempts by real estate corporations to take over creative space by trying to convert what are artist led locations into dead yuppie zones, we are confronted and need to find ways to go beyond the shiny, unaffordable, computer designed version we are expected to accept. If we do not want to become consumer zombies we must start to learn to travel to other dimensions and create new versions of where we want to live, which will be reflected in the apparent world we live in, eventually creating our own unreal estates!

This concert offers up a vision of new approaches to music which can affect how we play in life, and which is perhaps a memory of certain future gigs on Jupiter! score made by Hilary for LYSN - december 2006

ABOUT: Hilary Jeffery composes and plays music, writes and makes visual art. He lives and works in the Hilcave on Christmaseiland.

Chris Long has worked as a performing musician in areas ranging from classical/contemporary classical, to rock, jazz, musical theatre, experimental and improvised music. As a composer he studied with Gavin Bryars and has written for choirs, orchestra, dance and TV. As well as having worked with (among others) members of Kula Shaker and the Pogues, in 2007 he played keyboards in the world premiere run of &lsquo;Monkey: Journey to the West&rsquo;, an opera in Mandarin by Damon Albarn (of pop band Blur). Ongoing bands / projects include the improvising trio Netherworld Airtours, jazz-rock band OiGoi, the dishevelled-rock band Tenebrous Liar, and the Belgian music collective 48Cameras.

Anne Wellmer is a composer, performer, singer and sound artist. Among her work are sonic environments for performances, sound installations, live music for dance and theater, radio art, music theater pieces, network projects and improvisation with electronics. Anne Wellmer lives and works in The Hague (NL) and in Berlin (D).